Hardesty: Twisters, sun burns, motor inns and death-defying drive

Hardesty: Twisters, sun burns, motor inns and death-defying drive

- Tom Hardesty

[This is the third and final installment of Tales from the Open Road: A Sports Odyssey Across America]

Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson is famous for, among other things, his quote that “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”

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